Senin, 21 Oktober 2013

Why Good People Can Be So Evil Dan Rather

Philip
Zimbardo , in his research on why good people can turn out to be evil
and vice versa , found that there are three main factors underlying it ,
namely :

1 . Disposition ( can be regarded as a person's innate personality )2 . Situations ( certain situations can make people become evil or good )3 . System ( political , economic , etc. which creates a situation experienced by the people )

From
the third case , former psychology researcher is convinced that someone
has evil nature because they did have a ' seed ' evil since birth . But Zimbardo found that this is not true . He found that the environment was a greater factor in making a person into evil . In the 1970s , he conducted experiments of high risks on the matter, the " Stanford Prison Experiment " .In
this experiment , he asked for the help of volunteers willing to play
the role as prison guards and inmates for 2 full weeks . The study involved people who had no history to go to jail or commit any crime , it can be said that they are all good people . From
the beginning of the study , they actually scripted as prisoners ,
ranging from being picked up at their homes by police car and handcuffs
from the police , to the rules in simulated prison located in the
basement of Stanford University . The first days of the study as expected , but in a few days after that , there are events beyond expectations . The
guards began to act out the instructions on the grounds ' educate ' the
prisoners are not disciplined , followed by a reaction against the
prisoner . There's
even one prisoner until tantrums and eventually be removed from the
study because of fear will find negative effects of the experiment . Because of the chaos that happens continuously, the study concluded in just over a week .From
these studies , Zimbardo concluded that environmental factors are
factors that are very strong and dominant in changing someone from good
to evil or vice versa ( the discovery of which defy the old theory that
the disposition ( personality ) is the dominant person in changing a
person's behavior . And of research
, Zimbardo offers solutions , namely heroism or ' heroic ' to fight the
abominable system and the resulting situation for the good of mankind .Heroism is not a hero in the sense that Superman or the things that baffle others . The
definition of heroism is the heroism in the sense of daring against a
bad system , and focus on solving a bad situation better by being a
little ' devian ' or different from others . Zimbardo
pointed out that in the case of Abu Ghraib prison , there is someone
who dared to reveal the treatment of human guards are not there to the
media , namely Joe Darby . He dared to bear the terror threats just for doing ' what he should do ' . And was called a hero by Zimbardo which he poured in his book , " The Lucifer Effect